The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking directions to allow use of Gujarati as an additional language in courts in Gujarat..A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti upheld an August 2023 order by which the Gujarat High Court had earlier dismissed the public interest litigation (PIL) petition..The High Court had termed the petition "wholly misconceived", noting that the plea sought to challenge a December 2012 decision of the Supreme Court's full court refusing permission to use Gujarati as an additional language in courts.The PIL was filed by one Rohit Patel.The plea sought a directive to the State government to implement the authorization granted by the Governor of the State to make Gujarati an additional language in court proceedings.During a hearing held in November 2022, the High Court had observed that allowing Gujarati to be a language of the court proceedings would have a large scale effect.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking directions to allow use of Gujarati as an additional language in courts in Gujarat..A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti upheld an August 2023 order by which the Gujarat High Court had earlier dismissed the public interest litigation (PIL) petition..The High Court had termed the petition "wholly misconceived", noting that the plea sought to challenge a December 2012 decision of the Supreme Court's full court refusing permission to use Gujarati as an additional language in courts.The PIL was filed by one Rohit Patel.The plea sought a directive to the State government to implement the authorization granted by the Governor of the State to make Gujarati an additional language in court proceedings.During a hearing held in November 2022, the High Court had observed that allowing Gujarati to be a language of the court proceedings would have a large scale effect.
